RE: [MI400] MI as the MI language of the as400.

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not quite sure of the point you are trying to make here, but if the
point is that Microsoft didn't have ILE type concepts until .NET, I would
have to disagree.

As early as Visual Basic 3.0 (the one that ran under MS-DOS, not the windows
VBasic) we could do a lot of the same things we can do in ILE.  Visual Basic
3.0 would allow you to create a library, very similar to an RPG ILE
Directory, with your functions and call them from your programs.  The
library was in a separate object, .lib if I remember correctly.  ILE reminds
me quite a bit of this Visual Basic 3.0 and onward type of library building,
why it was rather easy for me to take ILE concepts and run with them.

I am not stating that RPG ILE is better or worst than Visual Basic 3.0 type
libraries, just stating the fact.

Regards,

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: Hall, Philip [mailto:phall@spss.com]

Not until .NET, where Microsoft have taken similar concepts as ILE (which
were not knew for ILE either) for their latest and greatest offering.